David Byrne & Fatboy Slim’s acclaimed 2010 album Here Lies Love receives it’s first-ever vinyl release to coincide with a new production opening on Broadway this summer. Here Lies Love is a double-disc song cycle – improbably poignant, decidedly surreal, surprisingly thought provoking – about the rise and fall of the Philippines’ notorious Imelda Marcos. It was conceived by David Byrne; composed by Byrne and DJ/recording artist Fatboy Slim, AKA Norman Cook; and performed by a dream cast drawn from the worlds of indie rock, alt country, R&B and pop. Byrne’s taste in collaborators is as imaginative as it is impeccable, including Cyndi Lauper (who recounts, to lighthearted disco beats, Imelda’s courtship with Ferdinand Marcos), Steve Earle (as the power-hungry Ferdinand), Dap-Kings vocalist Sharon Jones (recalling Imelda’s introduction into New York society) and Natalie Merchant (as spurned Imelda confidante Estrella, anticipating the onset of martial law). Along with vocals turns from such stars as Tori Amosand the B-52’s Kate Pierson, Byrne works with rising indie rockers St. Vincent and My Brightest Diamond; New York chanteuses Nellie McKayand, Martha Wainwright; and dance-music divas Risn Murphy and Santigold. Byrne himself appears as the voice of imperialistic America on ‘American Troglodyte’, a send-up that wouldn’t have seemed out of places in Talking Heads’ True Stories.
- 1Here Lies Love
- 2Every Drop of Rain
- 3You’ll Be Taken Care of
- 4The Rose of Tacloban
- 5How Are You?
- 6A Perfect Hand
- 7Eleven Days
- 8When She Passed By
- 9Walk Like a Woman
- 10Don’t You Agree?
- 11Pretty Face
- 12Ladies in Blue
- 13Dancing Together
- 14Men Will Do Anything
- 15The Whole Man
- 16Never So Big
- 17Please Don’t
- 18American Troglodyte
- 19Solano Avenue
- 20Order 1081
- 21Seven Years
- 22Why Don’t You Love Me?
Unconditional Satisfaction Guarantee
